Jadwiga Górska, resident in Warsaw at Targowa Street 36
Wife of the murdered Rajmund Górski
Mother of the murdered Tadeusz Górski
On 26 February 1942 at around 2.00 a.m. someone knocked on the door of my flat at VIII Poprzeczna Street 13, in the “Wioletta” villa, and ordered: – Open up, police! When I opened the door, a number of German gendarmes and secret agents burst inside.
They dragged my son, Tadeusz, from his bed and handcuffed him, while when I started crying and asking for an explanation, one of them hit me over the head with his pistol, causing blood to stream down my face.
Suddenly, I heard shots upstairs. It was Kopaliński; he was trying to break out of the trap. A moment later a German with a machine pistol ran into my flat and cried: – Stacho is dead! He wanted to shoot at my son, but a gendarme who was in the flat stopped him.
One of the agents in civilian clothes then said: – You will answer for this.
Next, they arrested my son, myself, and my husband.
Having earlier heard my son talking with Kopaliński, I knew that some Jadzia had been accepted to the organization, and that they held her in great trust. Later, after our arrest, when I was finally able to meet my husband, I learned that our son had said that Jadzia was an informer and had betrayed them.
When I met Ms Jorman in Pawiak prison – she had been detained in the same case – she told me that the arrests in Anin were connected with the killing by the organization of an SS man, a chief of gendarmes, at Odyńca Street 8 in Warsaw, for that was what she had been interrogated about. (Ms Jorman was released in November 1942).
Jadwiga Górska was arrested in Anin on 26 February 1942 and taken to the prison at Daniłowiczowska Street, from where she was transferred to Pawiak.
On 17 January 1943, she was sent to Majdanek, in July of that year to Ravensbrück, and thence to Magdeburg, to a camp subordinate to the administration of Oranienburg.
She remained there until the facility was liberated by the Soviet army.